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Storytelling of walks with friends, which will transport you outdoors

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Justin Chang trains his magnifying glass on a pratfalling archetype of crime fiction

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Forever Young

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Childhood Nightmares

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Novels That Shaped Our World

How women writers, women readers and women's lives have been central to the novel

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Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes

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The Big Scottish Book Club

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George Eliot at 200

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Listen to George Eliot's jewel in the classic novel crown.

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Everything Is Connected - George Eliot's Life

Contemporary artist Gillian Wearing celebrates the legacy of the Victorian novelist

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George Eliot: A Life in Five Characters

Linking her life to her characters, with readings by Juliet Stevenson

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New Thinking: George Eliot

Shahidha Bari discusses the state of scholarship on George Eliot

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Classic Christmas tales from the likes of Elizabeth Gaskell, Oscar Wilde and MR James

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Grossman's War

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Considering the legacy of the Impressionist painter 100 years after his death.

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